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   <h2 class="title">Setting Criteria for a Query</h2>
   <p class="para">
    We can create a query to pass to the
    <span class="function"><a href="mongocollection.find.html" class="function">MongoCollection::find()</a></span> method to get a subset of the
    documents in our collection. For example, if we wanted to find the document
    for which the value of the <code class="literal">&quot;i&quot;</code> field is
    <code class="literal">71</code>, we would do the following:
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<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br />$connection&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;new&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoClient</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$connection</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">database</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">collectionName</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;array(&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'i'&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&gt;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">71&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$cursor&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">find</span><span style="color: #007700">(&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$query&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /><br />while&nbsp;(&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$cursor</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">hasNext</span><span style="color: #007700">()&nbsp;)<br />{<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$cursor</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">getNext</span><span style="color: #007700">()&nbsp;);<br />}<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>
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    <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div>
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<div class="cdata"><pre>
array(2) {
  [&quot;_id&quot;]=&gt;
  object(MongoId)#6 (0) {
  }
  [&quot;i&quot;]=&gt;
  int(71)
  [&quot;_ns&quot;]=&gt;
  &quot;testCollection&quot;
}
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